Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson never married.

• True

• False

The last 16 years of her life Emily Dickinson...

• was ill.

• spent with her husband.

• didn't leave her home.

• was happier than before.

Emily Dickinson was alone all her life. She had no friends.

• True

• False

Emily Dickinson wrote her poems ...

• on paper.

• in her notebook.

• everywhere.

Emily Dickinson's favourite colour was...

• white

• black

• We don't know

The poet says that hope "sings the tune without the words." Why might the poet have written that the tune has no words?

• To emphasize that hope does not need to be put into words to be felt

• To point out that it is very difficult for people to express whether they feel hopeful or not

• To suggest that people are usually unable to understand the feeling of hope

• To indicate that people who are always hopeful are also often forgetful

What is the theme of "Hope is the thing with feathers?

• People need to work hard in order to maintain hope at all times.

• Hope is able to keep people warm even in the coldest, stormiest lands.

• Hope can survive through even the toughest times.

• Without hope, people would be much more sensible and realistic.

Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" uses which of the following literary devices to describe death?

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Look at the following lines from "'Hope Is the Thing With Feathers":
And sweetest -- in the Gale -- is heard --
And sore must be the storm --
That could abash the little Bird --
That kept so many warm --

Why does the poet capitalize certain words mid-sentence?

• it's a typo

• those are names of people in Dickinson's life

• to emphasize the importance of an idea

• the original manuscripts were very difficult to read

How many Stanzas are in this Emily Dickinson poem?

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

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• 1

• 12

• 5